Haiku Guy

by David Lanoue

Overview

This is the world's first "haiku novel"--a haiku-peppered work of fiction. It's the story of Buck-Teeth, a provincial poet and fictitious student of Issa ("Cup-of-Tea"), who in the course of his training travels to old Edo and contemporary New Orleans, falls in and out of love, considers the many schools of haiku, and ultimately learns what it means to be a poet.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940015007060
Publisher:	Haikuguy.com
Publication date:	07/26/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	153
File size:	97 KB

About the Author

David G. Lanoue is a professor of English at Xavier University of Louisiana. He is a cofounder of the New Orleans Haiku Society and an associate member of the Haiku Foundation. His books include a translation (Cup-of-Tea Poems; Selected Haiku of Kobayashi Issa), criticism (Pure Land Haiku: The Art of Priest Issa), and a series of "haiku novels": Haiku Guy, Laughing Buddha, Haiku Wars and Frog Poet. Some of his books have appeared in French, German, Spanish, Bulgarian, Serbian and Japanese editions. He maintains The Haiku of Kobayashi Issa website, for which he translated 10,000 of Issa’s haiku.

Editorial Reviews

Set in a wind-blown, temporary world where time and lastingness are without meaning and one breath is the duration of human wisdom.

Modern Haiku

Takes us on a literary journey to Old Japan and contemporary New Orleans that transcends the limits of time and space...

Xavier Review

Darts back and forth between present day and centuries ago, in a mystical, funny, stand-up comic Flaubert way...

Exquisite Corpse

The best textbook about writing haiku is a novel.

Working Poet

I enjoyed his lyrical muse...would recommend 'Haiku Guy' to all who write poetry, and to those who want to understand those poets.

Small Press Review